Re: [User-mode-linux-user] Requirement for ethertap daemon.

[David W. <dw...@in...>]

bu...@gn... said:

> [buytenh@mara buytenh]$ ls -al /dev/tap0
> crw-rw-rw-    1 buytenh  admins    36,  16 Aug 16 18:32 /dev/tap0
> [buytenh@mara buytenh]$ cat /dev/tap0
> cat: /dev/tap0: Operation not permitted

Aha. I consider that a bug in the netlink implementation.

We should make netlink_bind() bypass the capability check iff it's being 
invoked on behalf of the netlink chardevice.



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dwmw2